HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Waynesboro falls to Daniel Boone, 7-5

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Apr 6, 2013 at 9:00 AM

With classification comes ranking. And competition. The Waynesboro Indians varsity baseball team has frontloaded the schedule with Quad-A opponents — with two more at the tail end of the season — in an effort to keep up with the Joneses in the District 3 power rankings.

WAYNESBORO — With classification comes ranking. And competition.The Waynesboro Indians varsity baseball team has frontloaded the schedule with Quad-A opponents — with two more at the tail end of the season — in an effort to keep up with the Joneses in the District 3 power rankings.So far, the Tribe is 1-2 in matchups with Class AAAA teams after a 7-5 setback to visiting Daniel Boone on Friday afternoon.It didn’t come without a fight, however, as the Blazers jumped out to a 4-0 lead but had to score two runs in the sixth inning and then rely on relief pitcher Justin Herring and the defense to preserve the non-league win at Indian Field.“Four of our first five games I knew were going to be tough,” said Waynesboro head coach Greg Chandler. “I thought we played good baseball in both (losses to AAAA teams). It’s going to make us a little better.”The Indians opened the season with a 16-4 win over AAAA Chambersburg and lost to South Western, 7-1. Waynesboro’s other two games against Quad-A teams are Spring Grove and New Oxford.Chandler puts a premium on such games, especially now that the field for the District 3 playoffs has been pared down from 20 teams to 16. Moreover, the Commonwealth Division added a ninth team in 2013 (Mifflin County), adding another AAAA team to the District 3 list of teams vying for a post-season berth.Classification weighs heavily in the complicated power rankings, which combines a team’s weighted winning percentage and their opponents’ weighted winning percentage. The TWWP is based on the results of all games a team plays. It values wins and losses by the classification of the opponent.Waynesboro is the lone AAAA team of the Mid-Penn Colonial Division’s seven teams. All other teams are Class AAA. There are 12 Quad-A teams in the Mid-Penn Conference and 36 AAAA teams in District 3.In a game that featured eight total errors and Cole Warrenfeltz’s fourth triple of the season, Daniel Boone threatened to run away with it from the start. The Blazers batted around in the top of the first, scoring four runs on four hits and leaving runners stranded at second and third after starting pitcher John Barr struck out Bryce Stout to end the eventful inning.“I’m not displeased. If you take away the first inning, and if we could have put up a goose egg in their sixth inning, it would have been different,” Chandler said. “They’re a scrappy team and have some speed. We came up a couple hits shy.”Waynesboro got two runs back in the home first as Brandon Yurek singled and scored on Warrenfeltz’s triple. Warrenfeltz scored on an error to make it 4-2.The Blazers and Indians each scored a run in the second inning, and Waynesboro fought back to tie the game with solo runs in the third and fourth innings.Neither team scored in the fifth frame, setting up a climactic sixth stanza in which Daniel Boone pushed across two runs to take the lead for good.Waynesboro resumes divisional play on Tuesday with a game at Big Spring.

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